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Le chat et la lune - ISBN: 978-1-927345-13-9

This less-known fairy tale provides younger elementary students with an emotionally-charded, humourous story with an important moral. Because one animal believes that the moon has fallen in the water, all the others follow suit in panic until the king shows them that they are simply looking at a reflection.

De bonnes nouvelles ! We are pleased to announce that the learning units in our original Histoires en action ! Add-on Kit are all now available as full teaching kits, complete with full Teaching Guides; updated Blackline Masters (as both a binder & encrypted PDFs); updated DVDs, updated CD & CD-ROM; Posters & Image Cards and Big Book, overhead transparencies & PowerPoints™ of the play

This entry-level kit introduces introduces FSL students to the French language by engaging them through the scaffolded use of gestures, drama, music, dance and language-manipulation activities. Over the course of this 50-hour unit, students develop a working fluency, using 500 words. This kit is based on the classic folk tale Le chat et la lune, about a cat who mistakes the moon's reflection for the real thing – believing that the moon has fallen into a pond, he seeks the help of his animal friends to rescue her. This play provides both familiarity and plenty of opportunity for the repetition of key vocabulary and structures.

KIT CONTAINS:

Big Book and Overheads/PowerPoint™

Play with colour images in large print
Available as either Big Books (11” x 17” format) or Overheads (for overhead projectors)
The play is also available on PowerPoint™

Whole-Class Activities Book
Kitty Slater, B.Ed., Wendy Maxwell, M.A.

Partner/Group Activities Book

Gestured words from the vocabulary for this kit
A wide variety of partner/group activities
Scaffolded language-manipulation activities
100+ questions based on the story
Creative storytelling activities
Puppets
Song and rap lyrics
Supplementary language-manipulation activities for the kit

Whole Class

Partner/Group Activities Book: Student Blackline Masters
Wendy Maxwell, M.A., Kitty Slater, B.Ed.
(Available as both a binder and encrypted PDFs)

Posters and Image Cards

Image cards of words not gestured
Song and rap lyrics

Audio CD

Songs (with instrumental versions)
Fun Grammar Raps (with instrumental versions)
Play
Listening exercises / Assessment activities

CD-ROM

PowerPoints™ of the play, songs and raps
Written Activities
Cards and activities in game format to accompany kits in the program
Drama Resources
Games
Puppet images

Teacher DVD/Student DVD

Gestured vocabulary for this kit and the previous kit
Music videos featuring young Francophones
The play gestured for this kit
The play performed with TV series quality production
A first class with AIM
Overview of AIM Language Professional (Online training)

What is the AIM? DVD

Instructional DVD

Detailed descriptions of the AIM in action
Explanations on how to take AIM to the next level
Classroom excerpts

La lecture en ACTION ! AIM Readers

L'aventure de Stephanie
Story: Matt Maxwell
Illustrations: Jana Tublinshlak

Stéphanie is an 11-year-old girl who is a resident of a small town in northern Quebec. The town folk decide to put on a Festival du Voyageur. Stéphanie becomes bored with the cultural activities – the singing and dancing, the costumes, the sugaring off – and wanders down to the riverside, where she gets in one of the voyageurs' canoes. The canoe gets caught in the rapids; only the heroic actions of a young villager save the day. Stéphanie comes away from her adventure infinitely more appreciative of the community of which she is a part. The blackline masters have many activities based on the story, and contain a cultural unit on the life of the voyageurs in Quebec, and activities based on a simple description of a North American river eco-system.
Blackline masters written by AIM teacher/presenter Edite Sammons.




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AIM will donate 20% of the Jean-Michel – Acrobate reader sales to the Haitian relief fund on an on-going basis.

Jean-Michel – Acrobate
Story: Matt Maxwell
Illustrations: Jana Tublinshlak

Jean-Michel is a 12-year-old boy who lives in the slums of Cap-Haïtien in Haïti. This talented young fellow uses his acrobatic skills to earn money with which he buys his mother a birthday present. This story can used as a point de départ for a whole range of activities, including ones that focus on Caribbean francophone culture, and on poverty and social-justice issues. As well as language-manipulation activities based on the story, the blackline masters contain a cultural unit and language activities about sports and athletics.
Blackline Masters written by AIM teacher/presenter Edite Sammons.